[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: libssh2-1.5.0-1.fc20

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-3791
2015-03-13 12:40:16
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Name        : libssh2
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 1.5.0
Release     : 1.fc20
URL         : http://www.libssh2.org/
Summary     : A library implementing the SSH2 protocol
Description :
libssh2 is a library implementing the SSH2 protocol as defined by
Internet Drafts: SECSH-TRANS(22), SECSH-USERAUTH(25),
SECSH-CONNECTION(23), SECSH-ARCH(20), SECSH-FILEXFER(06)*,
SECSH-DHGEX(04), and SECSH-NUMBERS(10).

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Update Information:

This update, to the current upstream release version, contains numerous bug fixes and enhancements as described in the RELEASE-NOTES file.

These include a security fix for CVE-2015-1782:

A malicious attacker could man in the middle a real server and cause libssh2-using clients to crash (denial of service) or otherwise read and use completely unintended memory areas in this process. There are no known exploits of this flaw at this time.

See http://www.libssh2.org/adv_20150311.html for further details.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Mar 11 2015 Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> - 1.5.0-1
- Update to 1.5.0
  - See RELEASE-NOTES for details of bug fixes and enhancements
  - Security Advisory for CVE-2015-1782, using SSH_MSG_KEXINIT data unbounded
* Fri Oct 10 2014 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 1.4.3-10
- prevent a not-connected agent from closing STDIN (#1147717)
* Wed Apr 30 2014 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 1.4.3-9
- Fix curl's excessive memory consumption during scp download
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1199511 - CVE-2015-1782 libssh2: Using SSH_MSG_KEXINIT data unbounded
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1199511
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use
su -c 'yum update libssh2' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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